Conceivability and Possibility

Edited by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne

the editors' lengthy piece will be the definitive introduction to this area of philosophy

outstanding line-up of contributors

will be recognised as the landmark publication in this area

Conceivability and Possibility

Edited by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne

Description

The capacity to represent things to ourselves as possible plays a crucial role both in everyday thinking and in philosophical reasoning; this volume offers much-needed philosophical illumination of conceivability, possibility, and the relations between them.

Conceivability and Possibility

Edited by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne2. Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance, George Bealer3. Berkeley's Puzzle, John Campbell4. Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?, David Chalmers5. Desire in Imagination, Gregory Currie6. Essentialism versus Essentialism, Michael Della Rocca7. The Varieties of Necessity, Kit Fine8. A Study in Modal Deviance, Gideon Rosen9. On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature, Alan Sidelle10. The Art of the Impossible, Roy Sorensen11. Reliability and the a Priori, Ernest Sosa12. What is it Like to be a Zombie?, Robert Stalnaker13. The Conceivability of Naturalism, Crispin Wright14. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, Stephen Yablo

Conceivability and Possibility

Edited by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne

Author Information

Tamar Szabo Gendler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.